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Date Posted: Tue, Apr 13 2004, 19:00:38
Author: MKIceman
Subject: Re: Catseye's Post
In reply to: Catseye 's message, "Re: Catseye's Post" on Tue, Apr 13 2004, 18:48:25

>I'm not seeing your distinction between 'discussion'
>and 'information' here.

I will address this in Questions/Clarifications, and a separate post in Comments.

>>2. "This board can't handle anywhere near the amount
>>of posts the last one could"
>>
>>Agreed, but this has nothing to do with format.
>
>Yes, it does. To demonstrate: when I logged onto GAFF
>in the morning, there would usually be at least thirty
>new threads, each with at least five to ten posts
>average. Imagine that amount of threads and posts on a
>board like this. We'd be three pages back in the
>archives by the afternoon, and it would be horrendous
>to sift through. That's also the reason Site Guru
>turned down LiveJournal or JournalFen as possible new
>homes.

Again, that doesn't have to do with format. That has to do with VoyForum's service and their lack of open/close functions for tiers. By "format," I refer to a proper tiered structure (i.e., that of traditional newsgroups), not VoyForum's version.

>>3. "it's also far more prone to troll spamming
>attacks"
>>
>>Agreed, but this has nothing to do with format since
>>this refers to "this board." I can see how this
>>relates to format, and I agree with that point.
>
>I assume that last 'format' should read 'service'?

No, the last format should read "format," because I do see how easy it is to troll by posting trollery in response to each post in a tiered format rather than at the end of a sequentially formatted post.

--Matt

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